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Light earthquake, 4.6 mag strikes near Kitaibaraki in Japan

Posted by admin on August 30, 2016 0 Comments

Earthquake location 36.3954S, 141.6174WA light earthquake magnitude 4.6 (ml/mb) strikes 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Kitaibaraki in Japan on Wednesday. The temblor was reported at 05:36:49 / 5:36 am (local time epicenter). The earthquake occurred at a depth of 20.03 km (12 miles) below the earth’s surface. Id of earthquake: us10006ive. Event ids that are associated: us10006ive. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 141.6174 East, latitude 36.3954 North, depth = 20.03 km. A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 30/08/16 / 2016-08-30 20:36:49 / August 30, 2016 @ 8:36 pm.

Closest city/cities or villages, with min 5000 pop, to hypocenter/epicentrum was Iwaki, Katsuta, Hitachi-Naka. Nearby country/countries, Japan (c. 127 288 000 pop) (That might be effected). Epicenter of the event was 98 km (61 miles) from Iwaki (c. 357 300 pop), 89 km (56 miles) from Hitachi (c. 186 300 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Hitachi-Naka (c. 156 800 pop), 97 km (60 miles) from Katsuta (c. 156 000 pop), 89 km (55 miles) from Kitaibaraki (c. 50 800 pop), 94 km (59 miles) from Funaishikawa (c. 35 300 pop), 88 km (55 miles) from Takahagi (c. 33 600 pop).

Each year there are an estimated 13,000 light quakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days two, in the past 30 days five and in the last 365 days fifty-nine earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 4.0 to 5.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. The information in this article comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, detected near: 88 km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan.

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Parameter Value Description
Magnitude 4.6 mb The magnitude for the event.
Longitude 141.6174° East Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude 36.3954° North Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth 20.03 km Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place 88km ESE of Kitaibaraki, Japan Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time 2016-08-30 20:36:49 Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated 2016-08-30 21:24:41 Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset 540 Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt The total number of felt reports
CDI The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status reviewed Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami 0 This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG 326 A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network us The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources ,us, A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance 1.164 Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square 1.08 sec The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap 151 The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type mb The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type earthquake Type of seismic event.
Event ID us10006ive Id of event.
Event Code 10006ive An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS ,us10006ive, A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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